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  • Jony Ive removed from Apple's leadership page, marking the end of an era

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    Most people don't get that the pursuit of thinness was never just about design.

    Apple materially benefits from using less raw materials, and from reduced shipping charges. These were never passed on to customers.

    Yes, it absolutely hurt the iMac line, but it wasn't just Ive. Cook is an operations guy, after all.
    cy_starkman

  • 16-inch MacBook Pro review: The keyboard is probably enough to convince those waiting

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    Yep, it looks like next year's update to WiFi 6 and USB4 will make this the perfect Mac to have for years to come.

    Great job Apple. Nice to see this return to form with the important MacBook Pro line.
    cy_starkman

  • Bob Iger: Disney and Apple likely to have merged if Steve Jobs was alive

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    StrangeDays said:
    Actually, a lot of people blame Sony’s demise (as a legendary hardware company) on their finger in the content pie. They crippled hardware like the Sony Minidisc in order to prevent unauthorized content copying, DRM, etc. They did similar things with their Sony Media Sticks or whatever. Their gimped hardware just never caught on and they lost their momentum, never recovered. 

    Yep. Minidisc could have been the next big thing and they ruined it. It was like they learned nothing at all from the Betamax debacle.

    Blu-Ray did eventually have a somewhat limited victory, but Minidisc could have been really great for audio, video and data.
    mdriftmeyerronn

  • Bob Iger: Disney and Apple likely to have merged if Steve Jobs was alive

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    Maybe Steve could have sat them down prior to the release of Avengers: Endgame and explained that time travel doesn't work that way.
    radarthekatJaiOh81cincyteecornchip

  • Apple launches new 10.2-inch 7th generation iPad with Smart Connector

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    dempson said:

    I’m surprised the Air is still in the lineup now. .3” difference and A12 vs A10, is that it? Weird. 
    No, that is not all. Just considering the processor, the A12 benchmarks 38% faster (single core) to 95% faster (multi core), probably more than 100% faster for graphics, plus adds the Neural Engine which gives extra capabilities in areas such as AR.

    Apart from that, the Air has: more RAM (3 vs 2 GB), double storage at each tier, slightly thinner and lighter, fully laminated display, antireflective coating, P3 colour gamut, True Tone, better Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a few other minor advantages.

    Compared to the 6th gen iPad, the 7th gen catches up on the Air on two features: smart keyboard support, and nearly matching the display size. Everything else appears to be identical between 6th and 7th gen.

    It seems odd for Apple to introduce a new iPad with the A10 Fusion at the same time as discontinuing the iPhone which used that processor. It makes me wonder how many years of software updates the 7th gen iPad will get. The A12 Bionic should get two years/versions more than the A10 Fusion.

    I get (some of) your points, but I came here to say the same thing he did. I don't get the point of the Air in the lineup.

    They introduced a new product with a very old processor. Considering the massive amount of A-chips that Apple orders for iPhone, the difference in cost shouldn't be gigantic. Keeping an old processor in production does have a cost to it.

    More RAM and storage are config options that could easily be extended to the new model.
    Better wi-fi and Bluetooth are important for all iPad markets.

    The only really important difference here is the screen.
    Is it really worth it to keep an entirely separate model in the lineup for full lamination and True Tone?

    Couldn't they just have pushed the Air down to $399 and kept the lineup simple: iPad and iPad Pro?
    watto_cobra